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Project Nim (2011)

Project Nim (2011)

Documentary

The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.

Release Date: 2011, July 8
Directors: James Marsh
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: BBC Film, Red Box Films, Passion Pictures, Icon Productions, UK Film Council
Cast: Dennis Lauricella, Peter Elliott, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard, Chris Byrne, James Mahoney, Jenny Lee, Scarlett Bermingham, Bob Angelini, Nim Chimpsky, Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace

Overview:

From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

Keywords:

1970s chimpanzee wild animal linguistics love of animals animal behaviour